Logistics Operator

**Date**:Jul 25, 2025

**Location**: Deeside, GB

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

© 2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.

**Logistics Operative**
**Deeside**
**£competitive salary plus shift allowance and benefits**

At AkzoNobel, we’ve been pioneering a world of possibilities to bring surfaces to life for well over 200 years. As experts in making coatings, there’s a good chance you’re never more than a few meters away from one of our products. Our world-class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and committed to becoming the global industry leader in sustainable paints and coatings.

**Job Purpose**
As a Logistics Operative, you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth and safe operation of site logistics—overseeing the storage, handling, and dispatch of materials in accordance with our standards for customer service, health and safety, environmental compliance, and cost efficiency.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Store goods safely in both warehouse and compound areas
- Pick customer orders accurately from pick lists
- Load and unload delivery vehicles
- Assisting Production in varied tasks EG Decanting products.
- Stock rotating
- 5s
- Prioritise workload to ensure delivery deadlines and KPIs are met
- Deliver and support best practice standards
- Assist with stock checks and cycle counting activities
- Ensure correct segregation of waste streams
- Manage parcel deliveries to and from office areas
- Support in developing and reviewing SOPs and risk assessments
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organised working environment, including audits, stock segregation, and rotation
- Manage returnable IBCs
- Participate in daily tier meetings and contribute to housekeeping and 5S practices
- Support Production with tasks such as decanting and loading

**Job Requirements**
- GCSEs including Maths and English
- Valid Forklift Truck license
- Demonstrable understanding of logistics operations
- Knowledge of HSE&S regulations, including Carriage of Dangerous Goods
- Comfortable handling hazardous substances
- Numerate and capable of working with and presenting data
- Effective communication skills across operational teams
- Strong customer focus and team collaboration
- Experience with paints or chemicals is advantageous
- Familiarity with AkzoNobel’s company values and behaviours

**What Sets You Apart**
- Proactive and committed to maintaining a safe, efficient, and well-organised workplace
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and service
- Eager to contribute to continuous improvement and high performance

**What We Offer at AkzoNobel**
We offer excellent personal development opportunities and roles with depth, breadth, and real impact. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

- Competitive salary (depending on experience)
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Income protection and life assurance
- Staff discount at Dulux Decorator Centres
- Company pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Product discounts
- Flexible benefits including Gymflex, dental cover, retail cards, and more

We support a healthy work-life balance and promote mental wellbeing. Flexible working options may be considered for this role.

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 48196